a happy rant :P

Okay... this blog may be received in many ways, but I can’t help but post it. I’m in a bouncy mood now I’ve realized the below, and that’s kinda my point :P

I’ve been listening to Death Before Disco a million times today, and becoming more and more furious with the amount of YouTube posts going “This has no meaning! Where’s the deep, emotionally inspiring moral? Where’s the emo-ing?!” (/paraphrasing to suit my purposes :P). Grrrr, it’s ridiculous.

To explain; there is, as I’m sure you guys all know, the ‘MCR saved my life’ phrase, that is now way beyond popular among fans. However insensitive I may sound now, I’m sure there are people who may have been helped while in serious depression (*) by My Chem’s music, but as a whole... the phrase is thrown around far too casually now for my liking. This band’s fantastic music helps, yes, it truly does, but why must this be pointed out with the negative backdrop? I listen to MCR, and my mind skips out of my head and starts dancing around the room! If I’m lucky, the rest of me follows, and the result is my mood being so high I could walk on the ceiling! Why is this happiness not what people like to parade about their love of the music? Why must it all be taken, no, dragged down into something that’s no longer uplifting?

Back to the ‘saved my life’ thing. You know... I do not think this is used in the way it was originally intended, anymore. To be completely honest, were I a member of the band (*snorts at self*) I would be rather put out by it's current 'fashionable' status. In a recent interview, Gerard mentioned this habit fans have now, and said something along the lines of “If we helped, it's awesome, but what you did, YOU did yourself, keep the credit.” I feel they wrote this music to lift and move on, not to wallow in.

My friend described how she sees the progression of MCR’s albums perfectly, in my opinion. How they started with Bullet, with the message of escape and freedom, then Revenge, with the whole not giving up without a fight and, well, revenge, theme, and finally, Black Parade, which sends out the message, in the end, of not giving up at all!

Then we have this as yet unreleased one, which so far seems to not only deliver the message to never give up and keep going, but to have one hell of a fucking good time while doing so! I really do see in the style of this new album that if once you’re ‘saved’, you insist on going on and on about it, rather than getting up and taking the chance to enjoy yourself, and make the most of what you have, then what was the point!? This new album looks to be a BRILLIANT shake up to the status-quo a lot of MCR fans seem to be stuck in at the moment. One to get them up and moving and sticking two fingers up at bad things, rather than self pitying. Really, can’t the band just have a good time, every now and again, without Teh Seriousness? Haven’t they earned it?

Anyway, BOO to the "fans" who don’t get the hilarious awesomeness that is Death Before Disco, and SQUEE that this album seems like it’s going to be SUCH a breath of fresh air. Thankyou, guys! I seriously can’t wait to get stuck into this one =]

(* As a side point: please do note the difference I meant to emphasise between being depressed, and depression. The former is feeling sad, the later is a very serious disease. These two should never be confused, or abused. Emo-ing for emo-ing’s sake makes people suffering from actual depression look stupid. Just... don’t.
/personal rant.)